Table 1.
General characteristics of the Doctors
| Characteristics | n | % |
| Age(yrs) | ||
| <35 | 129 | 66.5 |
| >35 | 65 | 33.5 |
| Mean Years after graduation(yrs) | ||
| <5 | 50 | 25.8 |
| 6–9 | 103 | 53.1 |
| >10 | 41 | 21.1 |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 149 | 76.8 |
| Female | 45 | 23.2 |
| Types of hospital | ||
| University Teaching Hospital/FMC | 186 | 95.6 |
| General /Private Hospital | 8 | 4.1 |
| Specialty of practice | ||
| Internal Medicine | 108 | 55.7 |
| Family Medicine | 80 | 41.2 |
| Pulmonary Medicine | 6 | 3.1 |
| Rank /level of training | ||
| Medical officer | 61 | 31.4 |
| Junior Registrar | 80 | 41.2 |
| Senior registrar | 40 | 20.1 |
| Consultants | 9 | 4.6 |
| Pulmonologist | 4 | 2.6 |
| CME attendance | ||
| <6month | 46 | 23.7 |
| 6–12 month | 22 | 11.3 |
| 1–2 years | 36 | 18.6 |
| > 2 years | 66 | 34.0 |
| None | 24 | 12.4 |
CME-continuing medical education
FMC -Federal medical centre